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What? Free medicine for the elderly? Ron or Rand Paul would never allow that to happen!

Rand Paul is stumping for his dad, Texas Congressman Ron Paul. In a very telling statement, Rand Paul said this about Senator Rick Santorum:

“He voted to double the size of the Department of Education,” said Paul. “He voted to expand Medicare and add free drugs for senior citizens and he has voted for foreign aid. Those are not conservative principles. Seventy-seven percent of the American people are opposed to foreign aid and Rick Santorum has voted for it every time it’s come down.”

Did you catch that? Free drugs for senior citizens is against the principles of conservatism, according to Paul. That says it all for me. Free drugs for old people? What? That is an outrage! Make those elderly pay! The idea that the United States government (or a state government, even) would have the unmitigated gall to help poor old people stay alive or relieve their suffering is an outrage to these folks. That money should be spent on something important, not medicine for poor elderly folks.

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This is the politics of self-interest in action. The Republican nominees want to rip away each and every safety net that the poor, the sick, the elderly have, and leave them suffering alone – homeless, helpless, and hopeless. No free drugs. No free health care. No free education. I am surprised they have not come out against food banks. It doesn’t say anything in the Constitution about food banks. I mean, why encourage the poor to eat? Food only perpetuates their rotten existence. These poor people are, essentially, leeches on the back of society. That is the implied message. “You ain’t rich? Blame yo self!”

The Republican nominees want to create jobs – AFTER the election. Until then they will continue every devious trick they can to keep the unemployment rolls high. They will not cooperate with any plan to help Americans in any way as long as Obama is in the White House. I guess American “job creators” are also waiting for Obama to “exit, stage leftist.”

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The Newtonian one has a jobs plan. Newt would expose our nation’s poorest inner-city (black) kids to their first example of work. Gingrich would fire the janitors and have poor kids clean their school’s toilets. Then, presumably, they could someday go on to clean rich people’s toilets. That man is so caring. I am getting tingly all over.

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That is, in essence, is the Republican agenda. Abandon the poor and shore up the wealthiest among us. No taxes on the rich, no investment into America’s infrastructure.

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Of all of the Republican nominees, Ron Paul may be the one with the most scorched earth plans to dismantle the America we have grown up in. Ron Paul would gut the federal government, but more importantly, he would abandon the poorest Americans and leave them fending for themselves. They would be free to drink raw milk if they could afford it.

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As important as cannabis reform is to me, Paul’s views on legalizing pot are not enough for me to ever vote for him. It is great that Paul is against the immoral invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but I can’t vote for someone who believes that the government should not help its citizens who are most in need. There is not a single Republican nominee for president that gives a damn about America’s poorest, about her sick, and about her elderly. They are in a race to see who can appear the biggest Grinch, who can deny the most help to the most Americans.

And the Right Wing voters lap it up. None of that socialism that feeds the poor and has the audacity to offer free medicine to old people. What communist sympathizer came up with that crazy idea? The next thing you know they will be trying to give free formula to poor people with babies! That will bring our country down for sure. That money would be better spent if it was added to our insufficient military budget, or maybe we could give it to the job creators so it can trickle down.

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As disappointing as President Obama has been for progressives like myself, at least he is not advocating that the poorest, oldest, sickest Americans fend for themselves. Obama does not wish to deny poor Americans an education, and he is not opposed to free medicine for the elderly. Obama is not trying to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance for Americans. He is not out to break the unions so that the corporate sector can make another hundred billion dollars profit off the backs of the working class, dollars that never seem to trickle down far enough to help average Americans.

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The Republican agenda is a plan to increase the greed, to ramp up the selfishness, and to lock in plan that is tough on the poor, and shows much love to the rich. Nothing has changed in that regard for some time. Another day in American politics.

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The ultra-rich are consolidating their wealth in this buyer’s market. Those folks have the resources to take advantage of this economy while millions of working class Americans lose everything they have worked for. In fact, that appears to be the conservative American dream. The zealotry of the Tea Party has infected the Republican Party and now we can see the coldness of their hearts as they all scramble to see who can appear the stingiest of all in an effort to seize power and wealth for themselves.

Did I mention that every last one of them claims to be a devout Christian?

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